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The Creative Community For Peace letter calls for the end to “lies designed to demonize Israel and the Jewish people.”
Nearly 400+ people in the entertainment industry signed an open letter calling for “a rejection of extremist rhetoric and the spread of misinformation.”
The Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) released a letter signed by hundreds of creatives calling for an end to “lies and antisemitic incitement” in the fallout of the Israel-Hamas War.
“Hamas, Iran, and their allies and ideological sympathizers in the West have flooded the world with their hateful lies and antisemitic incitement since October 7 — lies designed to demonize Israel, the Jewish people, and their supporters,” the text of the letter reads.
Some of the signatories included Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Sharon Osbourne, Jerry O’Connell, Patricia Heaton, and Uzo Aduba.
Anti-Zionist protests affect Jewish lives
The letter went on to note the effects of the war, noting the shooting of two Israeli embassy workers in Washington DC earlier this month. It also stated that the signatories believed that many people in Hollywood had been “manipulated by the constant stream of misinformation.”
The CCFP letter noted that the signatories believed that recent waves of anti-Zionist and anti-Israel protests directly endangered Jews around the world.
“We reject the anti-Israel movement co-opting every social justice cause — outrageously claiming that to stand with the LGBTQIA+ community, or with anti-racist, anti-colonialist, anti-Islamophobic and anti-antisemitic movements, is to stand against Israel,” the statement read.